National debt annuities account of the gross amount of all bank annuities and any annuities for terms of years and other securities transferred, and of all sums of money paid, to the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt; and the gross amount of annuities for lives and for terms of years which have been granted for the same, and contracts for payments on death which have been made, under the provisions of the Act 19 & 20 Geo. 5, ch. 29, within the year ended 5th January, 1940 [electronic resource].